Typhoon Champi batters Taiwan: one dead, 527 injured, 650 millimetres of rain in Yilan

Typhoon Champi swept along Taiwan's east coast on October 22–24, leaving one dead and 527 injured, according to Taiwan's Central Emergency Operations Center, CNA reports. The land warning was lifted at 2:30 p.m. on October 24.

Gusts reached 227 kilometres per hour in some coastal areas, Reuters reported. Yilan county received about 650 millimetres of rain, more than 5,000 people were displaced, and about 288,000 households lost power at the peak. Flight cancellations fell from almost 1,000 on Friday to 259 on Saturday.

"I haven't seen anything like this in many years," a retired teacher in Yilan told Reuters.